What does “infrastructure” mean when your data stays exactly where it is, yet suddenly behaves like a graph?

I met Weimo Liu, CEO and co-founder of PuppyGraph, during an IT Press Tour presentation, and I wanted to bring his story to Infrastructure As A Conversation because this is a data infrastructure conversation at its core. Weimo’s pitch is simple to say and harder to pull off: keep a single copy of data in your lake or warehouse, skip the ETL pipelines, and still run graph queries with subsecond performance.

Weimo’s background explains why this is more than a clever demo. He worked at TigerGraph, then on Google’s F1 team, and PuppyGraph sits right between those worlds. In our conversation, he walks me through how they treat graph queries as a set of node and edge operations that can be optimized, parallelized, and evaluated in a  ...